Also an offer of DVC bounty is not very enticing as there is no where to convert it to $$ so I could buy the hardware. A BTC bounty would go a long way here.
Fuzzybear
This is one of the big things we need to get changed right now because any bounties are basically speculative at the moment. We can view it as a "Bitcoin"-like situation since it was also worthless in the beginning, but DVC was already traded pretty heavily in the past. A plan needs to be put in motion to give it a place to trade and a solid reason for users to obtain more. Even a DVC-denominated dice site could be useful in this case.